LivestockSouthern hay growers have good supplies but freight costs are rising, cottonseed is short and dear, and some Darling Downs grain growers are turning dry crops into silage for feedlots.
EnvironmentA Shandong Agricultural University study found that pelletised straw reduced nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen-fertilised saline-alkali soil by 43 to 46 percent, more than crushed straw, manure compost or biochar.
With machine composting and training through an IRRI-backed project, New Green Farm Cooperative in the Mekong Delta now earns from straw it once burned and has cut chemical nitrogen use by 40%.
LivestockVirginia's governor has eased hay-hauling limits and USDA fast-tracked disaster status for four Florida counties as drought tightens feed supplies across the US Southeast.
LivestockGovernor Abigail Spanberger's Executive Order 21 grants over-width waivers for hay haulage from 1 October, opens emergency funding and activates price-gouging protection after Extension put statewide hay yields down 35 percent.
After more than 10 inches of August rain flooded parts of Ohio, OSU Extension is telling livestock farmers to check stored bales, baleage and silage for mould, contamination and heating, and not to feed anything that was under water.
Governor Abigail Spanberger has declared a state of emergency granting over-width waivers for hay transport, after drought cut Virginia's hay yields by 35 percent and left the state short by about 500,000 tons going into winter.
Governor Abigail Spanberger's 45-day order lets wider truck loads move hay from 1 October, unlocks emergency funds and activates price-gouging protections; hay yields are down 35% statewide and up to 70% in places, and producers began feeding hay on 30 of the first 90 grazing days.
LivestockOklahoma State economist Derrell Peel says summer's cattle-market correction masked strong fundamentals: feedlot placements at the lowest in the series since 1996, a 33.6-million-head July feeder supply that is the smallest ever, 2026 hay production down 7.9 per cent, and Mexican cattle only slowly
Tien Thuan cooperative in Can Tho now makes 12 to 15 tonnes of organic fertiliser a month and grows mushrooms on the straw it used to burn, adding USD 50 to 70 a hectare over burning or selling the loose material.
CropsAfter the aman harvest, the paddy stubble known as nara still ties together rural farming, livestock feed and village memory, a Jagonews24 feature said at the end of December 2025.
With grazing land and stored straw destroyed by floodwater, farmers in low-lying Haluaghat are buying straw at Tk 25 a kg to feed their cattle.
